A community for discussing events around the World
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed.
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 19 2025
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Ask Historians !askhistorians@lemmy.world
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
Awesome. My question is: does Anti-Plague Research Institute actually mean Biological Weapon Research Institute?
My guess is yes, since she died. I'm pretty sure that it's pretty trivial to cure plague these days, just using antibiotics. Since she died, and there's a big quarantine, that suggests the possibility that they've been fucking with the bacteria and made it extra spicy. It's so obvious that governments will do this - just because - that Stephen King wrote the stand back in the 70s.
It could be antibiotics-resistant strain, and that can occur naturally pretty easily. Russian healthcare system likes to prescribe antibiotics for anything and everything, so probability of her being on some prolonged course that allowed for a super-plague to develop naturally is not zero.
Which, frankly speaking, will be so much worse. At this point, I hope it's a bioweapon.
Depends on the form. Even regular Yersinia can be very, very bad if it gets into the wrong organs.
Remember that conservatives constantly whine about "plandemics". And we have learned with the. That accusation is a confession.
-Pizzagate was Epstein -Stolen elections are literally all just conservatives cheating -Biden crime family was just giving permission to the insane corruption of the whore family.
Conservatives need to go away for the safety of all life on earth.
They are insane pedophile supporting psychopaths that only care about money
How long until the orange pedo uses this as an excuse for a lockdown and cancels the midterms
Wikipedia is already referencing articles saying it's a pathogen related to the Black Death.
And for people worried about it, the World Health Organization (WHO) says that "today it can be easily treated with antibiotics and the use of standard preventative measures."
Assuming of course, to be pessimistic, it hasn't been weaponized. Siberian Anti-Plague Research facility doesn't fill me with confidence, and you'd expect the hospital to have tried antibiotics, granted they may have been too late or used the wrong ones.
My 'favourite' fact about Soviet-era bioweapons is that they had a facility on an island in the Aral Sea. Said sea vanished from existence after the Kremlin redirected all the rivers which fed it in an effort to grow cotton in the desert, causing it to shrink to some 10% or less of its original volume. As well as destroying the livelihoods of the fishermen of Aralsk in Kazakhstan, it also made the island full of fucking anthrax among other things part of the mainland.
I'll say this for the Soviets, they didn't do environmental disasters by halves. Also as a Briton we had our own anthrax island in Scotland from the war that was only decontaminated in the '90s.
So if it’s easily treated, and I’m sure they knew this at the lab, why did the worker die?
Many possible explanations.
Let's not discount the possibility of creaking Soviet-era equipment that should have been replaced decades ago but the money was non-existent/spent corruptly/not enough to touch the sides of the neglect/delete as appropriate.
We're talking about the country which operates the poor Kuznetsov which has been begging for death for many years.
In a country where people suicide by 12 knife stabs in the back and where people randomly fall from an inoperable 5th floor window...
I would just say: because Russia?
No idea if true but people on reddit said it had to be treated within 24 hours of symptom onset.
A ton of people would easily try to wait it out and be too late to get meds.
Hopefully it's contained, because if we get another pandemic conservatives are going to do everything in their power to make it kill as many people as possible.
Maybe that's the accelerationists goal. Retreat in their bunkers, use ai to run things outside while humans die en masse, and then "rebuild society from its ashes".
They really are going all out for the midterms. A new pandemic
Welp, time to get a somewhat more substantial face filter mask thing.
"No, we're going to recommend simple surgical masks, and then when those don't work, we're going to claim that no masks or filtration devices work at all."
Ivermectin manufacturers are rubbing their hands and upping production.
"Mah freedom!"
Will DDR5 become affordable if 90% of humanity dies?
No, because LLMs are all vaccinated.
I guess we've reached the point where LLMs are actually smarter that a portion of the population.
Unless, they used Norton's......
climate change may be slowed or even reversed though.
oh hey look somebody wrote a book about this exact scenario recently...
Aw shit, here we go again…
Anti-Plague Research Institute
I bet I know what this mystery virus is
The articles says it's not a virus:
Darya Shipilova, an employee at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, was exposed to the bacteria after she accidentally broke a test tube containing the pathogen while she was collecting samples, the Kyiv Independent reported.
Why does it say virus in the title?
“Anti Plague Research Institute”.
That’s a funny way of translating “Illegal Biological Warfare Institute”.
